You should tell people what "Organizing for Action" is ... it's Obama's campaign organization. AFter the election, they found contributors who wanted to influence government were still interested in giving them money. So they morphed the campaign organization into "Organizing for Action" to push the causes of the nation's most famous community organizer. Organizing for Action uses the 15 million email addresses the Obama campaign collected for its purposes.

"Except as otherwise provided in this chapter no person shall have in his possession within this city . . . any instrument of any kind, character or description which throws or projects bullets or missiles of any kind to any distance by means of elastic force, air or any explosive substance, all referred to in this section as "firearms." "

Covers everything down to pea shooters and spit-wads. But in fairness, I presume the City has just acceded to State and Federal laws.

"Except as otherwise provided in this chapter no person shall have in his possession within this city . . . any instrument of any kind, character or description which throws or projects bullets or missiles of any kind to any distance by means of elastic force, air or any explosive substance, all referred to in this section as "firearms." "

Covers everything down to pea shooters and spit-wads. But in fairness, I presume the City has just acceded to State and Federal laws.

So then I would say Palo Alto PD and many a palo alto resident is in
violation of this law. Altough Palo Alto Law is in Violation of the law of the land. I always find it trivial how towns or cities seem to think they are above state and federal laws.

The section begins "Except as otherwise provided," and PAPD is the first exception.

The complete quote from the municipal code includes "anvils", meant presumably to dissuade anyone from emulating Roadrunner tactics against Wile E Coyote.

Not to make light of the serious issue of gun violence, but pointing out that putting a law into words is nearly impossible without outlawing absolutely everything, and then giving permission to make a few things legal after mandatory government licensing and fees. 65,000 Palo Altans will not rob a bank in their lifetime, yet we must all be treated as suspects. (Obeying the speed limit is another story, frequently covered in other threads.)